lethal wrecker service

0 commentsYou won't see Lethal Wrecker trucks on Grounds at UVA– or, at least, you won't see the company towing any cars.
According to Parking and Transportation Director Rebecca White, the university...

0 comments"I just had a harrowing ordeal with Lethal Wrecking!" begins Barbara Hatcher's email. I've written about Lethal a few times– four, to be exact. What's different this time is that the towee is a...

0 commentsSome embattled business owners and readers made 2003 a noisy year for this column, so herewith, three prizes:
Business owner most in need of customer-service training
Stumped? Here's a hint: I...

0 commentsLast week's column ended with a cliffhanger: Would AAA retain its emergency road-service contract with Lethal Wrecker, or call it quits?
The question arose because, on at least two occasions, Lethal...

0 commentsTalk about a rude awakening: At 4am on May 23, Thomas Adkins' 19-year-old son woke him with a mixture of good, bad, and alarming news.
The good news was that although he had driven his pickup into a...

0 commentsSharon Ragland stared in amazement: A Lethal Wrecker truck was backing straight into her friend's car. It was 4am on Sunday, March 30, and Ragland and her boyfriend, Anthony Barnett, were in the...

0 commentsOn January 2, 2001, Downing Smith was suffering an especially potent form of misery: double pneumonia, a high fever, freezing weather– and a house call from Lethal Wrecker.
Smith says that when...

0 commentsThere I was on a Friday afternoon at U Hall, locked out of a pickup I'd borrowed from one of my bosses and kicking myself for being so negligent. After a few feeble attempts to break in, I bowed to...